69 people were killed and over 300 were injured in a suicide
bombing in Lahore, Pakistan. On a calm Sunday evening as the cool wind blew and
the sun was setting to depart an explosion erupted. Chunks of bodies flew in
the air. Blood splattered and pooled on the ground. The frazzled blast, worth
only a couple moments, killed and injured many innocent families enjoying an
Easter Sunday evening at Gulsha-I-Iqbal public park in Lahore. The Pakistan
Army has been deployed to secure the city.
Most of the dead are children and women, that had gone for a
weekend outing to the park. The blast occurred just outside the exit gate,
which is located only a few meters away from the children’s swings. Bodies were
seen flying in the air before they thumped dead on the ground. Eye witnesses
claim the attack to have been a suicide bombing; the police haven’t confirmed
whether the blast had been carried out by a suicide bomber or a remote controlled
device.
It has been clear, in the past, that Pakistani hospitals aren’t
equip to handle such disasters. Local televisions have informed that many of
the dead bodies are being kept in hospital wards since all the morgues are
completely full or over crowded. Dawn News recently informed the citizens of
Lahore that there is a shortage in blood banks for blood types: A negative and
O positive. Hospitals are requesting citizens with those blood types to donate.
Security in the city has sky rocketed. The Punjab government
has ordered all parks to be shut down. Schools and shopping areas are on shut
down and the streets are completely deserted. This is a time for national
mourning. Why are the children of our nation being targeted? – they are our
future.
Questions and assertions have risen that this attack was an act
of terrorism by the Taliban.
Only a couple days ago there was another attack in a country
neighboring Pakistan. A bomber blew himself up in a football (soccer) stadium
in Iraq. The blast took place on Friday evening after an amateur football
(soccer) game. Cell phone video footage showed that the blast happened in the
midst of players collecting their trophies. Most of the crowd were young boys.
“When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it
attached to the rest of the world” – John Muir. On that note, I request my
readers to take a moment of silence to pray for the children of Pakistan, Iraq
and all the children of the world. We all need to find an allegiance towards
protecting our future generations to come.
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